Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

End of Nations – EU Takeover and The Lisbon Treaty

We set out to make a video concerning the pros and cons of the Lisbon Treaty and found out to our horror the lies, manipulations and deceit behind the EU. From MEPs, authorized specialists and EU researches the true nature of your EU unfolded, how it genuinely operates from behind closed doors and away from prying eyes. We learned the enormous energy grab away from citizens and nations towards the elites that is becoming proposed on this treaty.

Posted by Sara on November 26th, 2010 No Comments

The Prime Minister and the Press

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders recently ranked Italy in the bottom with the checklist for countries inside the European Union on its press freedom index.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is not only Italy’s richest man, but in addition the unrivaled proprietor of the huge media empire. This mixture of political power and personal ownership of a significant sector of your private media in Italy has provoked concerns concerning the independence on the Italian media.

By following the travails of a few of the country’s foremost important voices – such as Marco Travaglio, 1 of Italy’s most well-known investigative journalists – The Prime Minister and also the Press examines Berlusconi’s rise to prominence, and explores what happens to public debate when excessive wealth and political power converge with media dominance.

Posted by Sara on November 26th, 2010 No Comments

Suspect Nation

Britain has undergone a massive alter within the final couple of many years. Given that 9/11, the state has designed a really different watch of its’ citizens. New surveillance technologies are penetrating each and every element of our lives and we don’t even realize it. Throughout the nation, hundreds of thousands of cameras are observing us. The police will soon have the ability to document each journey we make and soon the state will want all of our fingerprints and iris scans.

Because Tony Blair’s New Labour authorities came to power in 1997, the united kingdom civil liberties landscape has changed dramatically. ASBOs wereintroduced by Area one from the Crime and Condition Act 1998 and first used in 1999. The proper to remain silent is not universal. Our appropriate to privateness, totally free from interception of communications continues to be severely curtailed. The capability to journey with out surveillance (or these particulars of our journeys being retained) has disappeared.

Indeed, as Henry Porter (the Observer journalist well-known for his recent e-mail clash with Tony Blair more than the paring down of civil liberties) reveals in this unsettling film, our actions are being watched, and recorded, much more than ever prior to.

Posted by Sara on November 26th, 2010 No Comments

Uprising In Tibet

These protests had been the immediate outcome of deep rooted resentment in opposition to China’s policies in Tibet, including the suppression of religious freedom, legal injustice, plus the denial of civil, political, economic, and cultural rights.

The next is an overview from the activities in Tibet within the Spring of 2008 as noted to the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy by verified sources.

It does not claim to become an exhaustive account, and organizations or individuals may well have obtained information and facts not presented here.

Names are already provided whenever achievable, however they signify only a fraction of individuals impacted by these activities.

Posted by Sara on November 26th, 2010 No Comments

The United Nations Deception

Former CBS anchor guy Walter Cronkite was amongst the recipients on the WFA award. Cronkite – ‘today we must develop federal constructions on a worldwide degree. To deal with world issues we will need a system of enforceable globe law.. a democratic federal world authorities.

Discover how top United Nations proponents exploit little arms, the environment, and justice to pressure Capitol Hill into quietly surrendering America’s heritage of freedom.

Posted by Sara on November 26th, 2010 No Comments

Stealing Your Freedom

Political commentator Peter Hitchens normally requires a take a look at how the current avalanche of security laws has impacted the civil liberties of ordinary persons in Britain.

The result, Hitchens explains, is we are sleepwalking right into a Huge Brother state. Travelling across Britain, Hitchens meets ordinary people today who have suffered needlessly due to the fact of new laws and elevated police powers.

Posted by Sara on November 26th, 2010 No Comments

Taxi to the Dark Side

Taxi to the Dark Side is a gripping investigation into the reckless abuse of energy through the Bush Administration.

A documentary murder mystery that examines the death of an Afghan taxi driver at Bagram Air Base, the film exposes a throughout the world coverage of detention and interrogation that condones torture along with the abrogation of human rights.

Posted by Sara on November 26th, 2010 No Comments

The Truth Game

John Pilger’s penetrating documentary which seems to be at world-wide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race. Once the two American atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, they had been code-named ‘Fat Man’ and ‘Little Boy’, and President Truman introduced following the event: “The experiment has been an overwhelming success.” “These”, says Pilger, “were words utilized to describe the awful and horrific carnage of nuclear war. By making use of reassuring, even soothing language, this new type of propaganda developed acceptable images of war and also the illusion that we could reside securely with nuclear weapons”.

Posted by Sara on November 26th, 2010 No Comments

The Power of Nightmares

The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. The series consists of three one-hour films, consisting mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis’s narration, which were first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and have been subsequently aired in multiple countries and shown in several film festivals, including the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

The films compare the rise of the American Neo-Conservative movement and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and noting strong similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is in fact a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies.

Posted by Sarah on May 8th, 2010 No Comments

The Miami Model

The Miami ModelThe Miami model is a term used by political activists to describe the tactics employed by law enforcement agencies during demonstrations relating to the negotiations for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) trade agreement. The meeting related protests took place in Miami, Florida in November 2003. The Miami Model is also the title of a documentary film, produced by Indymedia, about the FTAA, the police action in Miami, and political organizing led by people of color in the Miami area.

This term refers to the distinctive features of crowd control technique used in Miami, which included large scale pre-emptive arrests, heavily armed sometimes unidentifiable law enforcement, the collection of intelligence from protesters, and the “embedding” of corporate media with the police.

Miami Activist Defense and National Lawyers Guild filed a federal lawsuit against the City, the Mayor, Police Chief Timoney, Homeland Defense Secretary Ridge, and Attorney General Ashcroft for rampant abuse of the constitution.

Among the groups which organized against the FTAA were the Green Bloc, United for Peace and Justice, Root Cause, several AFL-CIO affiliated unions, Midwest Unrest, Pittsburgh Organizing Group, Food Not Bombs and many others.

Posted by Sarah on May 8th, 2010 No Comments